Word: cocteau
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...volumes of Beaton's diaries preceded this abridged collection, but in this case less truly is more. The dull passages have been excised, and only the best remain, glittering stories about glittering people. Cocteau and Colette, Coward and Capote, Garbo and De Gaulle. Advising the young Beaton about clothes, Noel Coward, for instance, sounds like one of his own characters. "One would like to indulge one's own taste," he says. "[But] I take ruthless stock of myself in the mirror before going out. A polo jumper or unfortunate tie exposes one to danger...
...that my experiments, which appear dangerous today, become indispensable tomorrow." He was right. He discovered Stravinsky at a concert in St. Petersburg and Picasso in a shabby studio in Montmartre. In Parade, first performed in 1917, he juxtaposed cubist costumes with the sharp-edged music of Satie and a Cocteau libretto...
...Benjamin Disraeli. In literature there are treasures from both sides of the Atlantic. Richard Ellmann's Joyce, George Painter's Proust and Leon Edel's James are the chief prizes, but there are many other jewels, including Michael Holroyd on Lytton Strachey, Francis Steegmuller on Cocteau and Quentin Bell on Virginia Woolf. Moreover, the past year has brought a host of distinguished and bestselling additions to the collection: William Manchester island-hopping with Douglas MacArthur, Edmund Morris galloping up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt and Barbara Tuchman wading through the wars and devastations of the 14th...
...Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best known to the general public for his film performances in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman...
After apprenticing with Man Ray, Abbott established her own portrait studio which attracted James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and fellow photographer Eugene Atget...